How to Use mime in a Sentence

mime

1 of 2 noun

• Jackson grew up in Big Bethel church, sang and performed on the mime team.
  — Curtis Bunn, Indianapolis Star, 12 Feb. 2018
• Emily bails to cheer up Mindy and leaves Madeline to get hazed by the only mime in Paris.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2021
• The horses are on one end of a giant lever controlled by actors in mime faces on the ground.
  — Maggie Hendricks, For The Win, 15 Dec. 2017
• Trump clutched his throat and lolled his tongue in a somewhat graphic mime of choking.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• Instead, the actors gather in four groups on stage and mime the action of being tossed about by the waves.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 13 Dec. 2019
• Some scenes will also feature the actors in mime-like masks.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2022
• Hoffberger dropped out of high school to study mime in Paris with the legendary Marcel Marceau.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2022
• And then there is the mime for denouncing a fall: two hands thrust forward in a diving motion.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• Each evening, the woman’s family would gather outside the window, call her phone, and mime through the glass.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2020
• Do contemporary-folk hands. Pretend to pull a rope, like a mime.
  — Kerry Elson, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2023
• The classics were represented in the form of mimes and French clowns, sporting the season’s best ruffled necks and puffy sleeves.
  — Regina Bresler, Cosmopolitan, 11 Sep. 2017
• There is a lot of plot, which in dance requires a lot of narrative mime; most of it, and its music, is forgettable.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• As forms of wordless storytelling, mime and music are sister arts that rarely share a stage.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• Robert Shields, a famous American mime also in town for the festival told the audience that this was not part of the act.
  — Tommy Rowan, Philly.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• View Slideshow In 1967, a young David Bowie struck mime-like poses in front of a camera wearing a white cashmere sweater, his blond hair coiffed slightly to the right side of his face.
  — Chloe Fein, The Cut, 3 Aug. 2017
• And then, the hard part: To repeat your partner’s own story back to that person, but using only motions and mime, not words.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
• Le Hop has already posted a video, including the appearance of a mime.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2019
• Spider-Man pressed his hands against an imaginary screen, like a mime trying to escape.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• Look for mimes, buskers and street performers throughout the festival.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2018
• Quixote's dependence on the kindness of strangers forces him to bring a steady stream of civilians onstage to help him read ballads, mime scenes, and otherwise emote.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 11 Oct. 2017
• Imagine walking into a room full of mimes and pretending to shoot one of them with a bow and arrow, Mastroianni says.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• The fact that most people know what a mime looks like—the white face with cartoonish features, the black and white clothes—is largely thanks to Marcel Marceau, born Marcel Mangel.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017
• Sobelle, a kinetic performer trained in the arts of clowning and mime, slides a few panels of the frame of a house across the stage and proceeds to attach a plastic tarp with a staple gun.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2020
• Instead of leaving town as planned, Mr. Sherman grabbed a set of antique toilet plungers and headed downtown to Wall Street, to pass the hat as a sidewalk juggler and mime.
  — John Leland, New York Times, 8 July 2021
• Along with Side Deal, the dance company Academy of Villains — dressed like a group of hip-hop mimes — performed two sets for attendees.
  — Richard Chang, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Kris, or Pepe (her mime name), starts by making silent movements outside of Khloé’s family-room window.
  — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 16 Jan. 2018
• With a mime always in pocket, Cirque du Soleil productions don’t rely on language.
  — Dylan Owens, The Know, 7 June 2017
• That includes musicians, dancers, mimes, clowns, singers, magicians, artists and more.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Under the influence of such a potent mix, the user sometimes becomes paralyzed, appearing like a mime or a mannequin, frozen in mid-stride on a sidewalk or in the middle of a street.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• From middle school productions of Fame to joining a mime troupe and performing in Hair, Josh was always involved in entertaining others.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 27 Aug. 2023

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mime

2 of 2 verb

• She mimed picking up the phone and dialing a number.
• He mimed playing a guitar.
• In My Feelings and doing a dance that mimes the lyrics in the song.
  — Charles Curtis, For The Win, 9 July 2018
• The actors are meant to make use of furnishings at hand and mime the rest.
  — Daryl H. Miller, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• Abad rolled a baseball and Hoskins charged, scooped it with his glove and mimed a throw to the infield.
  — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• The first film co-stars mimes Shields and Yarnell, as a $600 bionic man and woman.
  — David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com, 23 June 2017
• We would be given earpieces that would play the last take and mime it out.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Mostert lies in the end zone, mimes paddling out on a board, then leaps up into a surf stance.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 27 Jan. 2020
• Some movements were big, like Greenlee’s, who crouched and mimed turning the wheel of a car.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• Then, set a 60-second timer for the group to guess what each player is miming.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2023
• Marceau learned to mime to survive and save the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents were killed by the Nazis.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2017
• Oh, and who can forget the ski shows, with guys and girls in bathing suits miming to pop songs about romance on the beach.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
• As one actor mimes a camel ride, the kids laugh raucously.
  — Lily Altavena, azcentral, 5 Jan. 2020
• The last pair at the prom are Gia and Electric Metric, who mime out a winning little skit.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2021
• Instead, the three floors are all on the same level, and the actors mime clambering up and down the steps that connect them.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 27 July 2017
• As the Wildcats pitcher threw, Vaughns mimed his swing.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• The Duke of Sussex was seen miming a baby bump while talking to kids, according to video from the event.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Mar. 2019
• Through gestures and miming, Carias learned how to become a puppeteer.
  — Joelle Estelle Mendoza, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Kihyun and Minhyun begin to mime how Shownu rubs skin-care products around his face.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 27 July 2018
• At first, the double, always seen with his back to the camera, would simply mime Mackie’s readings.
  — Washington Post, 20 May 2021
• The basketball player posted a video of Rapinoe dancing in the pool and miming drums.
  — Meg Walters, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023
• Watching the wild ending again, Liz thinks back to Ron miming shooting all the kids, who gleefully play dead.
  — David Gordon, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• And in Georgetown, some of the Caps frolicked in a shallow fountain, including a shirtless Ovi who mimed the breaststroke.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 11 June 2018
• Slim Shady mimed Kilmer sitting back in a chair peering across and then looking away after locking eyes with the rapper.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 May 2018
• Reynolds, whom the Phillies would send to mime school in order to enhance his skills, would personify the Phanatic for the next 16 seasons.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Chafin, a country boy from rural Ohio who lived in an RV last spring training, mimed lassoing the others.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• Throughout the conference, Korine mimed taking puffs of his cigar.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
• Delus said, miming his eyes widening at the layup, the Eagles bursting into laughter in the postgame news conference.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• In the five-second visual, Harry mimed a baby bump to the kids, most likely alluding to his wife Meghan Markle's pregnancy, who is due in the spring.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2019
• But as soon as one of the directors calls cut, Hemsworth breaks into a grin, miming an air guitar and squeegeeing water off his face with his hands.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 15 June 2023

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